Towel cabinet



March 19, 1929. J. H. ADDLER 1,705,600

TOWEL CABINET Filed May 28, 192'? E ;-ijjjjQiifQiii$-11,

INVENTOR MQKM/ HIS ATTORNEY Fatenteel ll ilar. 19, 1 929.

sates JOSEPH H. ADDL'ER, OEBROOKLYN, NEW YORK, Assrcavoa'ro P'ULLCLEAN MANUFAC- TUBING conronnrron, or remnenronr, CONNECTICUT, A oonronn'rron or DELA- HARE.

Application filed May 28,

This invention relates totowel cabinets of the type comprising a plurality of rollers within the cabinet, one carrying a roll of clean towelling adapted to be drawn outwardly from the cabinet in suitable lengths for drying purposes, others being operative to take up the soiled towelling in substantially the same ratio as it is drawn out, and another being operatively connected with the take-up rollers to actuate the same; this last mentioned roller being operated by the frictional engagement of the towel therewith in being drawn from the cabinet.

In cabinets of'this type as usually constructed, it has been necessary to employ a braking means in connection with the towel carrying roller forpreventing overthrow of the latter when rotated under the. pulling action of the towel; this overthrow being objectionable in that it tends toloosen the wraps of the supported towelling, inwhich event the outward feeding or withdrawal of the towelling from the cabinet in an even and smooth condition is prevented.

The braking means for these carrying rollers as heretofore employed have not been found to be efiective however, and it has therefore been an object of the presentinvention'to provide an improved means for preventing overthrow of such rollers which will be elfective. This object is attained by means of the novel construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter described and claimed and as illustrated in the accompany,

' ing drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a front view of a towel cabinet equipped with my invention, and

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same online 2-2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

The cabinet, which may be of any desired construction ordesign, is here shown as comprising a body portion 1 having a door 2 at the front side thereof, said door being hinged at one end to the body, as at 3, and at its opposite end being secured in closed position by suitable fastening means, such as the lock 4. These parts may be formed of any suitable material, but preferably are formed of metal.

Located within the casing 1 adjacent opposite ends thereof are a pair of frame or bracket plates 5, 5 which are secured in position by suitable fastening means, such as the bolts 6. These bracket plates provide end bearings for a plurality of towel supporting driving connections.

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duplicates, only one of them has been here shown; a V Suitably journaled in these bracket'nlates adjacent the top part of the cabinetis aroller 7 upon which the roll of clean towelling, indicated at t, is adapted to be mounted. WVhen so mounted, the leading end of the towel is led from the frontside of the roll downwardly beneath a stationary guide rod and from thence forwardly. through-an opening 9 in the front wall of the, cabinet to and over a guide roller 10, which latteris journaled in extensions of the bracket plates which project through the opening/9 in the cabinet to support the roller'10 at the front side thereof. From this guide roller 10, the

clean roll, tl'ieksoiled part'thereof is adapted to be drawzrback into the cabinetand' rewound upon the roller 12 in substantially the same length of loop at all times atthe front side of the cabinet. This is accomphshed in the following manner: A roller 8 plates 5, 5,'in position-to have the roll of towelling on the roller .7 bear directly theretowel depends in loop form, as at Z, in conis journaled at its opposite ends in the bracket against, whereby, as said roll is rotated by.

the pulling of the towel from the cabinet, it will act throughits frictional engagement with the roller 8 to rotate the latter, and such actuation of this roller is utilized to operate the re-winding roller 11 through suitable These connections, which are duplicated at, the opposite ends of the rollers, comprise a sprocket wheel 14 attached to one end of the roller 8 and operatively connected through a sprocket chain 7 15 with a second sprocket wheel 16 attached to one end of the 're-winding roller 11, which latter cooperates with the roller 12 to effect a re-windin of the towel. This driven roller 11 is journaled in the lower ends of a pair of swinging-arms,

such as 18, pivotally mounted on hub extensions of the roller 8, whereby 1t may move bodily with respect to t e roller 12 toaccomr mod'ateitselrt to the increasin diameter of. I. 1 1 i r; the roll or soiled towelling being wound connecting with upper extensions 20- 015 the 10.

arms 18; shown in Fig. 2; As a further means of guiding the roller 11 inits movements radially the roller 12, the bracket plates 5 are provided with arcuate slots 21 through which the endvj'ournals of the roller 11 extend. w I

liraccoraance"withmy present invention, the'actuating roller 8 is mounted in a position below and in advance of the towel carrying roller 7 whereby it will engage the roll of towelling on saidroller at a point rorward .ol the vertical plane of its axis and below the horizontal plane thereof, as shown inFig. 2; it having been found in practice that the en-, gageinent-ot the roll of towelling at or about such pointi'by the roller8 acts to retard or brake the forward rotation of the roller'under the pulling actionthereon in withdrawing the towel tromthe cabinet more effectually than the braking means applied directly to the towelicarrying roller as heretofore employed; and such braking actionis made more effectime by means actingto hold the roll of towelling'in close contact with the roller 8 during unwinding of. the same and preventing raising or jumping? of thesame with respect to the roller 8: such as might occur as the result of a quick outward pull or jerk of the towel by a user. This holding means as here shown comprises guide-ways on the inner or op- .clined and extending from a point back of and above the roller 8 to a'poii'it adjacent the latter whereby the roller 7 with the supported towelling will normally gravitate towards the roller 8 as tho-diameter 0I the roll of towelling decreases during use of the same and thus act to maintain proper contact of the roll. ot' towelling with the roller 8. Furthermore, these guide-ways, by reason of their inclination, act in the nature of wedges to hol :l the roll of towelling against theroller 8 when being rotated by. the outward feeding or withdrawal of the towelling;

As a means to facilitate the positioning of the roller 7 within the guide-waysand its removal therei ron'i, grooves are provided in the bracket plates which lead upwardly from the guide-ways in a direction towards the front of the cabinet and inposition convenient for access at such point.

l Vhat I claim is:

"A towel cabinet carrying a roli oftowelling for unwinding in a: clockwise direction tromthe top of the comprising a roller for roil, second roller mounted int'iont of the ca-l'iinet below said first mentioned roller for 'engagen'ient with the towelling thereon, and

guide-ways in which the towel carrying roller is slidingiy mounted, said guide-ways being inclined toward said second roller,'wl1ereby said second roller will grip the roll of tow- JOSEPH n. ADDLER. 

